Lab manager position at the University of California, Santa Barbara

POSITION DESCRIPTION
The Woo Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for an open, full-time Junior Specialist position, with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2024, or later. The lab is looking for a hardworking, motivated individual who is passionate about cognitive development. Our lab is interested in how humans come to understand others’ actions and minds, particularly in social contexts. Through studies of infants and young children, our lab aims to characterize the developmental foundations of human learning and cooperation.

The Junior Specialist will report directly to the PI, and they will be responsible for managing and overseeing the team of undergraduate research assistants, the lab spaces, the running of studies (in-person and online), the lab’s data, IRB protocols, and open science practices. Additionally, they will support literature reviews, study design, stimulus creation, participant recruitment, data collection, data analysis, presentations, paper writing, and grant writing. The position will include opportunities for developing independent research projects, learning new skills, and mentoring undergraduate research assistants. We hope that this position will prepare someone well for graduate studies.

Research Coordinator Position at Stanford University

The Stanford Center on Early Childhood seeks a full time Research Coordinator to join our team. The Research Coordinator will work in Dr. Jelena Obradović’s SPARK Lab coordinating activities for a new project developing measurements and assessments for children in preschool through grade 2.

https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/research-coordinator-22644

The Research Coordinator will work under the supervision of Dr. Michael Sulik and Dr. Jelena Obradović coordinating the project activities, including conducting literature searches, overseeing convening logistics, and working closely with outside organizations to develop and maintain research-practice partnerships. The person in this role will also work directly with research participants, conducting recruitment activities as well as screening and consenting new participants, leading assessments and focus groups, and managing the logistics of participant participation and incentives.

Research Coordinator Position Available— Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA

The Applied Mind and Health (AMH) Lab, directed by Dr. Stacey N. Doan at Claremont McKenna College in the Department of Psychological Science, seeks a full-time (with benefits) research coordinator/manager beginning in the Fall of 2023. Our research focuses on emotions, stress, relationships, and their mental and physical health implications. Our current projects include an RCT testing the efficacy of a mindfulness-based intervention on physical and psychological health, a longitudinal investigation of parenting, stress, and aggression, and a study investigating the role of stress hormones on maternal and child outcomes. Our work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and multiple private foundations. 

The initial appointment will be for one year. There is a possibility to extend for additional years based on performance and continued funding. 

Project coordinator (post-bac) position at UC Davis

Dr. Katharine Graf Estes with the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis seeks to fill a research assistant position at the Junior Specialist level. This is a 90% position and is for one year. There may be a possibility for an extension depending on funding. The successful candidate will participate in all aspects of research in language development in infancy, from stimulus creation to data analysis to the presentation of research findings in seminars, conferences, and manuscripts submitted for publication. The successful candidate will communicate with monolingual (English-speaking) and bilingual (Spanish and English-speaking) parents and infants. The position will involve developing, in collaboration with the PI and graduate students, experimental designs, stimuli, and procedures. The person hired is expected to independently analyze data, create materials for presentation at conferences, and present research at national and international conferences.

Full job posting: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05763

Research Study Assistant Position: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI) within the UW School of Medicine

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI) within the UW School of Medicine is recruiting for a Research Study Assistant!

Under the supervision of Dr. Jill Locke, the Co-Executive Director of the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center, the Research Assistant provides support for behavioral science research studies involving human subjects.  Activities include taking a supporting role of one or more school-based research projects with community partners, including the development and monitoring of research procedures; responsibility for quality assurance systems to accomplish research goals; contribution to the analysis of research study results and the preparation of reports for review boards, funders and publication. This position will primarily support the RUBI in Educational Settings intervention trial in public schools.

Lab Manager Position at UC DREAMS Lab (University of California, Berkeley)

The UC DREAMS lab in the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley (PI: Arianne Eason) is recruiting for a full time one-year lab management position. We will interview applicants until the position is filled. A brief description appears below or you can view the recruitment ad here: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03917.

Who we are:

The UC UC DREAMS Lab is focused on understanding the nature of prejudice, bias, and inequality development across numerous social groups, such as Black Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, women, and poor individuals. The lab applies methods from social, cultural, and developmental psychology to understand how features of our social and cultural context shape peoples’ attitudes and behaviors in ways that work to reify existing inequalities and stagnate change.

Lab manager/research coordinator at UCLA

The Speech and Cognitive Development Lab (PI Meg Cychosz) in the UCLA Department of Linguistics seeks a part-time (50%) lab manager/research coordinator, beginning in Fall/September 2023. The individual will oversee the recruitment, scheduling, and running of child (primarily aged 3-7) participants in the lab using methods such as eye-tracking. Additional responsibilities include managing undergraduate research assistants, overseeing in-home data collection (LENA) from children, coordinating research and outreach events for children with hearing loss, analyzing experimental data, and co-authoring publications and conference presentations with the PI. The coordinator will have the opportunity to conduct their own independent research projects and learn new experimental techniques, using resources in the Speech and Cognitive Development Lab as well as the UCLA Phonetics Lab. 

Lab manager/research coordinator position at UCLA

The Speech and Cognitive Development Lab (PI Meg Cychosz) in the UCLA Department of Linguistics seeks a part-time (50%) lab manager/research coordinator, beginning in Fall/September 2023. The individual will oversee the recruitment, scheduling, and running of child (primarily aged 3-7) participants in the lab using methods such as eye-tracking. Additional responsibilities include managing undergraduate research assistants, overseeing in-home data collection (LENA) from children, coordinating research and outreach events for children with hearing loss, analyzing experimental data, and co-authoring publications and conference presentations with the PI. The coordinator will have the opportunity to conduct their own independent research projects and learn new experimental techniques, using resources in the Speech and Cognitive Development Lab as well as the UCLA Phonetics Lab. 

Post-Bac Research Position at UC Riverside

The UCR Perception, Action, and Development laboratory (padlab.ucr.edu) is looking to hire a 30-hour/week research coordinator to help run an NSF-funded study of infants’ everyday visual, auditory, and motor experiences. The position would last 1 year with the possibility of renewal and will receive full benefits (30+ hours is considered full time). Part of the research coordinator’s responsibilities includes making visits to participants’ homes to drop off recording equipment in the Riverside County area, so fully remote work is not possible for this position.

The research coordinator will have opportunities to master a variety of recording techniques—wearable inertial sensors, head-mounted eye trackers, and LENA audio recorders—and gain experience with in-demand machine learning analyses. To see the full list of responsibilities/requirements and to apply to the position, please visit the UCR Jobs portal: https://irecruitportal.ucr.edu/irecruit/!Controller?action=jobs_webui.show_page&page=jobs_detail&requisition_id=29304616&profile_id=&module=jobs

Expected starting pay is $23.92/hour (approximately $37k annually plus benefits). Please direct any questions about the position to me (franchak@ucr.edu). We expect to review applications around the end of April to hire someone starting in late Spring or early Summer.

Easy-to-share link about the job below:
https://padlab.ucr.edu/posts/2023-03-21-job-posting.html

Research coordinator position at UC San Diego

The Language & Development Lab, directed by Dr. David Barner, is seeking a full-time research coordinator to begin Summer or Fall of 2023

The lab uses behavioral methods to investigate language and conceptual development. The research coordinator’s responsibilities will center on research activities including recruiting, scheduling, and testing participants, creating experimental stimuli, and training and managing undergraduate RAs to collect and code data. Half of the coordinator’s time will be spent coordinating activities of the ManyNumbers project, a large international study investigating the development of numeracy in young children.

The position will maintain and purchase lab equipment, maintain and update IRB protocols and participant databases, communicate with collaborating sites, manage payments with US and international sites, and coordinate social media outreach. The research coordinator will also organize and attend weekly lab meetings and is encouraged to attend other scientific talks and be a member of the intellectual community at UCSD. The position will involve working closely with the PI, collaborators in the ManyNumbers network, and senior researchers in the lab, and will present the opportunity to build skills in designing experiments and analyzing, presenting, and publishing data.

Details of the position and instructions to apply can be found here: https://employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-coordinator-122222/job/24112147

Questions may be directed to Dr. Barner, at dbarner@ucsd.edu